D Malone McMillan

Peculiar Chickens (eBook, ePUB)

A Wee Yarn for the Grands

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a time, long ago, before the plague of participation trophies and helicopter parents, a young boy and girl, Doug and Georgia, work together to rally the neighborhood kids to rescue a litter of abandoned misfit puppies from a wretched neighbor. It is a quirky story written for my grandchildren to pass down the values of my generation, including our missteps. While targeted to middle grade readers, the fifty and over crowd will also enjoy the nostalgic journey. The novel is a work of fiction, but many of the stories are centered around actual events.

Set in South Georgia during the Sixties, the kids live in a poor, religious neighborhood of dual working parents. Doug finds and rescues the first puppy, Albert, while looking for an errant baseball. He has to hide the dog from his parents. Through sheltering Albert, Doug becomes friends with his popular and older neighbor, Savannah Georgia. Georgia is so named because her alcoholic mother filled out the birth certificate one line off. The two become great friends and work together, and with the help of Albert, locate and rescue his remaining litter mates. The wretched neighbors, the Malvados, live down the street, just beyond the ditch. They are an all-male, extended family of no-gooders and truants. The Malvados acquire strays to sell to a dog fighting ring in a neighboring county headed by a deputy sheriff.

The story is funny and light stressing values such as self-reliance, compassion, and integrity but does contain dark undercurrents, providing subtle windows for parents to discuss weighty issues including poverty, domestic abuse, bullying, religion, discrimination and animal abuse.

Enjoy the journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Douglas McMillan
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732006249
• Artikelnr.: 56818369

Autorenporträt

D Malone McMillan, the crotchety grandson of South Georgia sharecroppers, is a former Senior Executive for a Fortune 50 telecommunications firm. After a brief tour with the U.S. Army, McMillan received his BSBA from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. A proud Southerner, McMillan, originally from Tifton, GA., currently calls the beaches of Jacksonville home with his beautiful and sometimes adoring wife, Jennifer, and his serial farting rescue mutts and best friends, Jaws and Jelli. McMillan has three grown children and five occasionally well-behaved grandchildren. He enjoys painting, fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, photography, golfing, reading, traveling, Jalapeno Cheetos, and long, afternoon naps. Never under-estimate the curative powers of Cheetos and naps. McMillan places his quirky characters in remarkable settings then sits back and takes copious notes as the characters interact inside his head. With his wife Jennifer, McMillan has traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Europe.